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Color Consultation in Scottdale

Our Color Consultation service helps you select interior and exterior paint colors. We provide specific color recommendations for your home. This service focuses on color without changing layouts or furnishings.

What we do

During a Design consultation, we discuss your home's existing features and your preferences. We then present your design with specific color palettes and material selections. We provide Construction documents detailing paint colors and finishes for your contractor. Jill Kearns leads these consultations in Atlanta, and Jennifer Peterson leads them in Chicago and Southwest Michigan. We do not provide jobsite inspections for this service.

Who it suits

This service suits homes in Chicago, Atlanta, and Southwest Michigan. It is ideal for bungalows, Victorians, and mid-century ranches needing updated color schemes. We help with single rooms, entire interiors, or exterior paint selections.

Questions

What specifically do I receive with a Color Consultation?

You receive a Presentation of your design with specific color palettes. We also provide Construction documents detailing paint colors and finishes for your contractor.

How does this differ from your Full-Home Design service?

Color Consultation focuses only on paint and finish colors. Full-Home Design includes space planning, furnishing, and styling for multiple rooms, along with material selections and jobsite inspections.

Is this service suitable for exterior paint selections?

Yes, our Color Consultation service includes interior and exterior paint color selections. We provide specific recommendations for your home's exterior finishes.

Who will be working on my Color Consultation?

Jennifer Peterson leads Color Consultations in Chicago and Southwest Michigan. Jill Kearns leads these consultations in Atlanta.

Does this service include furnishing or styling?

No, this service focuses solely on color selection. Our Furnishing & Styling service covers furniture, accessories, and decorative elements.

In Scottdale

Homes in Scottdale

Scottdale features a mix of housing styles, including 1950s ranch homes in neighborhoods like Scottdale Park, often with original galley kitchens that homeowners want to open up to living spaces. Many homes in the Avondale Dunaire area are 1920s bungalows, where we often address smaller bathrooms or create more functional Mudroom spaces. Newer construction, such as the 2000s townhomes near the Scottdale-Decatur border, often benefit from Furnishing & Styling or Color Consultation to personalize their interiors. We also work on 1960s brick ranches in the areas around North Avondale Road, frequently updating Kitchen Design and Bathroom Design.

What homeowners in Scottdale ask for

Homeowners in Scottdale frequently seek Kitchen Design to update their 1950s ranch kitchens, often involving removing walls to create open-concept living. Bathroom Design is also common in 1920s bungalows, where original layouts are often small and dated. We also complete Full-Home Design projects for families moving into 1960s ranches, looking to update all living spaces. Basement Remodel projects are popular for adding functional living areas in homes with unfinished lower levels.

Led by Jill Kearns from the Atlanta studio

Jennifer Peterson and Jill Kearns, the sisters behind J. Peterson Design

About the studio

Two sisters, one studio

Jennifer Peterson founded J. Peterson Design in 2008 and leads our work in Chicago and Southwest Michigan. Her sister, Jill Kearns, leads the Atlanta studio. Together, we design homes that feel considered and beautiful, but also comfortable, functional, and personal to the people who live in them.

Although we work in different cities, we operate as one studio. We talk through plans, share ideas, question each other, and bring another experienced set of eyes to the decisions that matter. Being sisters makes that collaboration especially natural — there is a shorthand, an honesty, and a shared standard that has been there long before the studio.

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Led by Jill Kearns